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...right to know," which would present a stirring challenge were it not for one minor problem: there's no such thing. We may want to know things about the world around us. It may be good for us to know what happens in government. We might be really, really curious to know the lurid details of a celebrity rape trial, so curious that newspapers figure they can sell a million copies by printing a fetishistic photo of a faceless (and therefore dehumanized) woman on the front page...
Author David Foster Wallace--author of The Broom of the System and Girl with Curious Hairwill read from his memoir, "Tennis, Trigonometry, Tornadoes." In Charlesbank Bookshops at the Boston University Bookstore Mall, fifth floor reading room, 660 Beacon St., Boston. Thursday, Dec. 12, at 7 p.m. For information call...
While the outside world was curious about Rindge and Latin's AIDS education program, Schoff said the students were busy asking intelligent, candid questions...
...music stands out as a luminous love song, but overall the oratorio is rambling and generic; there is nothing to match the economy and effect of such "classical" McCartney tunes as Eleanor Rigby and Yesterday, and you certainly can't dance to it. Indeed, the piece emerges as a curious cross between Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius and the Who's Quadrophenia, but it lacks either the former's ecstatic fervor or the latter's nose-in-the-dirt realism. One waits in vain for the real McCartney to loosen his tie and do something a little rude...
...think he won't, but restrictions on activism may be on the way, if California's Board of Regents is willing, which it probably is, although it usually doesn't get involved in this kind of thing, which is probably fine with the governor, because he sometimes expresses a "curious sympathy for student radicals," although he "rarely hides his distaste for anti-Vietnam protests...